It wont take as long as you think it would. Because after 0.6 released comments were closed up until 0.7. It was great, we had like 5 guys pretending to be one of commenters, there was a lot of off topic discussion (yes, even more then now), we even had a Maeve's Academy Comment Section's minecraft server (I am serious btw)
Can't it be self hosted tho? If it's java someone can host it on their computer if they want to keep it on 24/7 same thing for bedrock and a minecraft server won't take up that much ram, recommended requirements is only 4gb. Also realms only works for the new versions and if it's going to be a modded server, 1.20.1 is the best if it's java